The government has cancelled the recruitment drive by the immigrations department that resulted in several deaths and injuries after a stampede. Read more »
President Goodluck Jonathan is calling for an investigation into the recruitment tragedy that claimed several lives, after grilling Interior Minister Abba Moro about the incident. Read more »
At least 16 people were killed in stampedes when hundreds of thousands were invited to apply for fewer than 5,000 government jobs. Read more »
With 44 people missing and feared drowned after a smugglers' boat capsized off the coast of southern Yemen, the UN refugee agency has urged a comprehensive response to prevent ... Read more »
The Israeli government has increased its grant to Africans who accept to return to their countries 'voluntarily', however, the alternative to accepting such departure can be ... Read more »
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has appointed more officials to positions in the Liberian government. Read more »
The porous nature of Nigeria's borders and lack of effective control aids terrorism and the movement of arms into the country, says Comptroller-General of the Immigration service, ... Read more »
Gulf states' riches have been built on oil, credit and exploited migrant labour. Increasingly, these workers are African, writes Alistair Sloan for ThinkAfrica Press. Read more »
At least 144,000 migrants have returned home from Saudi Arabia where they had gone in search of a better life, a number the government had not antcipated or budgeted for. Read more »
African migrants continue their protest outside the Israeli parliament to oppose a new law that allows the indefinite detention of those without valid visas. Read more »
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